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Subject: Re: By Christmas simply choose between the P4/3066 and the Athlon XP 3000+

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 10:31:40 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 10:16:39, Mark Young wrote:

>I don't know but I get sick of seeing the stuff posted on here. It is always the
>same for years on here. Chip x is the ultimate for running chess programs bla
>bla bla...then in 3 month the same people are calling it obsolete when the next
>upgrade hits the street. It never changes....

Particularly when a modern freeware program running on a 166MHz Pentium is quite
enough to utterly waste me time after time; buying the "best processor for
chess" would be an exercise in masochism as well as for the contents of my bank
account ;)

(I have a 1GHz machine with no chess software installed on it apart from scid,
as I prefer to pit my wits against PalmOS programs. Doubtless one of the usual
suspects will soon be posting about how the new ARM-based PalmOS machines are
"best for chess" and another £400 should be poured down Sony's greedy throat :)

Alastair



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